I suppose not. Evil is probably too strong a word. Though, when you have 150 people, including cashiers at Stop and Shop, telling you that you need to put some in the bottle of your unsuspecting baby from the time of three months, before their bodies are even able to fully digest your own breastmilk, it gets a little old.
What makes people think that this stuff is the magic bullet? Did you ever stuff your body with a whole bunch of rice and then sleep better? Isn’t there a GI index thingie that indicates sugars—especially the kind in rice—break down quickly and leave you hungrier?
I wish people understood that a binky full of bourbon wouldn’t get my child sleeping more. She just is that way.
Our pediatrician likened giving rice cereal to feeding your baby a shredded issue of the New York Times.
Wait. That might make them smarter!
That and a list of other things that people just ‘accept’ as being the right thing to do makes me feel so very sad for most of the babies I see around me.
Couldn’t agree with you more!